Wagon-body



Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

l. SPEED. wAQoN BODY. APPLICATION FILED AUG.I4. |919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOIIIN SPEED, OF NEW YORK, N'. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO` JAMES MCDERMOTT 'AND ONE-THIRD T0 WALTER ROBERTS, BOTH OF BICI-I MOND HILL, NEW YORK.

WAGON-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

Application filed August 14, 1919. Serial No. 317,497.

of the United States, and a resident of theV city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved lagon-Body, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to wagon bodies and has .particular reference to such bodies as are designed for use in connection with motor trucks for heavy load service and most reliable operation. y

Among the objects 0f the invention is to provide a novel floor structure for a truck or wagon body having peculiarly strong, reliable and efiicient stake supporting means.

Another object of the invention is to improve the construction of the wagon bodies with respect to the combined floor sills and stake supports.

With the foregoing and other objects in 'view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described andA claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practicalembodiment thereof reference is had to V.the Vaccompanying drawings,rin which like reference charactersY designate the same parts in the several views, and in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation or edge view of a portion of a wagon body floor, one of the sills and a stake.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same portion of the floor shown in Fig. 1 and with the stake in section 0n the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional detail on the line 8-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. L1 is a perspective view of one end of the sill and the stake socket, the flooring being omitted from this view; and

Fig. 5 is an end view of the sill.

Referring now mo-re specifically t0 the drawings l show my invention as comprising a floor sill 10, it being understood that any number of these sills that may be desired will be employed and arranged usually transversely of the body. Each sill is composed in the preferred form of a metal I- beam 11 of a height corresponding to the full height of the sill. Fitted into each side of the I-beam is av block of wood 12 which may be coeXtensive in length with the I-beam or any length shorter as may be preferred. These blocks or filling strips are shaped or molded along their inner sides to conform to the surfaces of the I-beam or in other words each of the strips is provided with a tongue 13 fitted into the sideof the I-beam and directly against the vertical portion thereof, the top and bottom surfaces 14 and 15 of the strips lying flush with the top and bottom surfaces of the I-beam respectively. Any suitable means may be provided to secure the two filling strips 12 and I-beam together making a permanent rigid sill structure and of perfectly rectangular form in cross section. To this end I employ any suitable number of transverse bolts 1G passing through the three parts of the sill in ad- 4dition to other means now to be described.

The filling strips 12 being preferably of wood easily adapt themselves for the attachment of the floor members 17 extending ordinarily longitudinally o-f the body, the attachment being effected either by nails or bolts, preferably the latter shown at 18.

One of the chief fea-tures of my improvement lies in the socket member shown as a whole at 19, the same comprising a U-shaped device having side portions or legs 2() and a front portion 21. These three portions may be described as each comprising a. horizontal flange and a Vvertical flange, the three horizontal flanges lying flush with the top ofthe sill while the vertical flanges of the side legs 20 embrace the outer sides of the filling strips 12. An inner member or portion of the socket piece consists of a strut or bridge member 22 spanning the space between the legs 2O and lie spaced from and parallel to the front portion 21. The strut 22 is adapted to lie or abut snugly against the end of the sill, and the space between the strut and the end member 21 constitutes a socket 23 for the stake 24. rllhe socket member as a who-le may be made by any suitable means such as by drop casting or forging and providing for the rigidity thereof as well as permanency of form.

If desired the strut 22 may be omitted and the socket member in such event may easily be formed from a common angle bar cut with a hack saw or the like at 2l and with the leg portions bent around parallel to each other and at right angles to the end rigid and reliable socket than if the endl of the sill be relied upon. The horizontal flanges'of the socket member are adapted for use in attachment of some of the floor pieces 17 directly thereto and by means of bolts 18 passing through the floor pieces Vand holes 30 formed in the socket member.

Bolts 81 passing through the vertical flange portions of the legs 2O serve to lock the socket member with the end of the sill and additionally bind the members of the sill together. i Y l 1 The stakeA is composed'of a stick of wood or its equivalent having its lower end reinforced by means of a channel member 211 embracing the inner and edge walls of the stick. The stick is slotted at 25 at the lower end to straddle a locking screw 26 adaptedto pass freely through a smooth hole 27 formed in theverticaliange portion of the end part of the socket member 21. Within the slot 25 yis-located a nut 28 with which the-screw. cooperates. The nut'being held from rotation bythe stake the turning of the screwy therethrough will cause the point of the screw to impinge against the inner wall of the channel 24 with force proportional to the `force applied tothe rotation of the screw, the vouter wall of the nut reacting` squarely against the inner wall of the member 21. vAfter the screw` is tightened in-this..

way vit may be locked by means of a lock .nut 29 on the outside ofthe member 21.

The binding force of the screw reacting be. tween the channel and the adjacent side wall Vthe floor pieces and the socket member.. Y

. 3. ln awagon-.body construction, the com-v bination lof astake, aI sill vcomprising an.

of the socket, makes a rigid,*thoughY separable, stake fastening. Y

I claim: v

1. ln a wagon"body'construction, a .sill having a lat'upper surface', a U-shaped stake socket member comprising side legs embracing the sides of the sill and an end piece integral with one another, the legs and end piece comprising horizontal iange members -flush withvthertopfsurface of the Sill, saidend piece being spaced from the end of the sill forming a stake socket, and means passing through said legs to lock the'socketmember to the end of the sill. :v s

2. In a wagon bodyconstruction, the combination of` a sill of rectangular form in cross sectionl and having a Hat uppersurface, a vstake socket member having an end piece and side legs,` the uppersurfaces vof which like flush `with thev upper surface of the sill' and with theend. piece spaced from the end1 of the V.sill forming a stake socket, floor pieces `lying upon the s ill and socket member, and means interlocking thesocketl member and the sill and means interlocking -beam and wooden'vller members fitted to the sides thereof,a socket member compris-l ing side legportion's embracingpthe'outer sides of the filler members, locking members passing through thef'socket member,

legs and sill to secure these kparts together,

the socket member including.y also an end piece spaced'v from the end of the sill and av legs and 'spaced from and parallelto said end member, @the space forming a vstake socket, and means acting through' the Vend member of the socketpiecehto :lock the stakel in thesocket.

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l strut member extending between the l.side Y 

